Timetable for the Local Elections

Following a decision from the Cabinet issued on February 8, 2010 calling for the 2010 Local Council Elections to be held on July 17, 2010, the CEC announces the legal timeline for all electoral procedures, based on the Local Council Elections Law No. 10 of 2005:

Electoral event	Legal period (days)	Date of Implementation
Voter registration	11	6 March
End of voter registration	1	16 March
Exhibition and challenges	5	25 April
Processing of appeals by the Commission	5	30 April
Appealing of CEC decisions before the court	5	5 May
Adjudication of appeals by the court	3	10 May
Nomination	10	1 June
Last date to withdraw nominations for candidates	1	9 June
Closing of nominations	1	10 June
Publishing of the preliminary list of candidates	1	12 June
Receiving of objections to the lists and their candidates	3	12 June
Processing of objections to the nominations	3	14 June
Appealing the CEC decisions on the nominations before the court	3	17 June
Adjudication of the appeals submitted on the nominations by the court	5	20 June
Last date to withdraw nominations for lists	1	2 July
Publishing of the final register of electoral lists	1	3 July
Electoral campaigning	13	3 July
Last date of electoral campaigning	1	15 July
Polling day	1	17 July
Announcement of the preliminary election results and commencement of the final counting process	1	18 July
Announcement of the final election results	3	18 July
Submission of appeals on election results to the electoral court	7	21 July
Adjudication of appeals by the electoral court	5	28 July
Rerun of elections in the councils/centers decided upon by the court	28	31 July